Comment by CamperBob2

Since you're flattening and addressing GPs comment with a political false dichotomy... A conspiracy isn't needed to explain the decay of culture, values, material conditions - all it takes is a set of incentives that don't align with broad public well-being, and some time. Move fast and break things!

Feudalism is back, baby! A simple reversion to the mean.

Does it really matter whether it’s a conspiracy when the end results are the same?